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Originally Posted by VydorScope
I think rule 5 should be completely ignored, you put it on the market forever. I dislike when books I love disappear and dont come back... or dont exist in ebook form! But thats just being selfish  |
I think he was referring fairly specifically to selling his work to a publisher.
And yes to whoever it was who called Heinlein pedantic; just read the first chapter or two of
Have Space Suit, Will Travel for a good dose of it.
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As with everyone else I think that rule three is wrong, at least for me. I rewrite constantly as I go. Just finished another re-write pass, and the first draft is not written. I guess I just have more of an iterative writing process then he did?
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Well, when he was writing, a manuscript had to be typed by hand on a mechanical typewriter, and the only way you got a copy for yourself was to use carbon paper. Not exactly my idea of fun, having done that. I still have my mechanical typewriter somewhere, too.
Antique hoarding aside, it took a lot of effort to produce a new manuscript, and you had to literally rewrite the whole thing when you had a meaningful plot change. A minor change to your pagination meant you had to retype at least the whole chapter, and heaven help you if you did it while using the trick with the massive spool of 8" butcher paper.
Lot of work for a minor plot tweak, no?